'Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. My girlfriend got a nosebleed and had to leave.'
-Jared Robert Baxter

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i will make significantly more than one half of our decisions

i will use only body language that i know you will never pick up on

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[fucking.. cucumber]
[beer i didn't even want..]
[to play pinball]
(think someone else paid for part of my share or something)
'bodega'
'bodega'
'bodega'
'bodega'
'late night stars'

Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange, and reuse. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

p 34
'I don't want to go to jail,' he thought. 'But I don't want to do a lot of things. My life doesn't matter.'

p 41
He said whenever he saw more than two things together he immediately thought 'Look at that pile of crap.'

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'Richard Yates' 2010

1948 by carl van vechten

photo by i dont know

dont know who shot this

Martin Tomlinson, 2003 or 2004
photographed by Andrew Kendall

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the photo in the layout, just for Maria Kier :)

Ha, finding shit like this makes me want to manifesto, 'every [populist?] artist of any note, who has ever lived, has made use of the red + at some point.' Warhol's red-painted cross silk screening: easy for_instance. Maybe there are better red +'s in Warhol to discover.

The incredibly photogenic Keith Haring managed to make art that looked even sexier than he did. I hadn't really thought about him or his art for a really long time when I most recently started using the +; it wasn't a conscious reference to anything, though I have drawn the + in margins and shit since I was a very little kid. But Haring's art has been in my life an incredibly long time, as it's basically modern art training wheels. The cartoon version. I bought Keith Haring Editions on Paper 1982-1990 [the Katz book] for an incredibly low price, like $25 maybe, in Boston, over ten years ago. It's an outsize book so it's followed me anyplace I've had large bookshelf space, including to Brooklyn. Until I picked up that Mao Mag thing I mentioned, I hadn't thought about Keith Haring or his art for years. In my recent reappraisal of his stuff, I've been pleased to discover

[1] dude was a genius
[2] dude also tagged using the red +.

'Untitled', 1985. Yeah, basically all his works were untitled, and their number is staggering. It makes me want to sit down with all his work and title it. I mean, not like I feel my connection to the work is _that_ special or anything, but I'm competent at writing titles. Who does not love to title their artwork? That's fucking daft. It's totally the best part.

This 1985 one, I think I call it Red Plus.

outfit 1: 2005, 'i raided Conor Oberst's closet, blow me'
outfit 2: 1999ish, what is that, duct tape? i own a closer crop of this print, and the weirdness of his outfit isn't readily apparent.

outfit 2 photo by Todd Oldham; don't know who shot the first one.

all other entries are in the directory. some questions are answered at return the ring.